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the story seems to me a bit odd: i wonder if it is itself a piece of art, a bit of agitprop.
why not?
releasing such information to the press about the non-performance of an opera seems on the one hand a pretty good way of generating publicity--perhaps the backstory involves the cancellation of the production because it sucked (or as a result of paranoid "security concerns") which was then transformed into a press release that was understood as on the one hand a piece of art in itself (a commentary on paranoialand in general as well as an extension of it) and on another as a way to bring pressure to bear on the opera company to mount a production they had decided not to.
it certainly seems to be working.
above you get lots of harumph harumph about self-censorship as if that was transparently the question at hand.
that is not necessarily true.
conservatives can be cynical.
this release seems cynical to me.
it is not so obvious what is happening in this particular case.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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